BOXING

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 June 1923, Page 6

BOXING

A USTRALIAN CONTESTS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, June 24. .Archie Bradley beat Jack Dale, punishing him o>er eleven rounds, when me iei..rec stopped the fight. Bradley .-.as cue strongest tighter, and. he iorccd tiie pace.. The V ictorian responded gamely. He was knocked down in tile.fifth round, and in the ninth a suvem blow on his eye almost closed it. MELBOURNE, June 24. Jim' Dale outpointed Webber, and Pat Kelly outpointed Ted Nelson. Goths bouts were well contested. MASCART V. McADAM. PARIS, June 24. Mascart knocked out Mick McAdam in the first round. TENDLER TO BOX LEONARD. NEW YORK, June 19. , Benny Leonard has contracted to meet Lew Tendler in a match for the world’s light-weight boxing championship on July 23. TOURNAMENT AT ELTHAM. (Per Press Association). ELTHAM, June 25. The Eltham Boxing Association held a tournament on Saturday night, seven bouts being staged. The contests were ail willing, except the welterweight, wherein the referee stopped the fight in the first round and awarded the decision to O’Brien over Pearce to save a knock-out.

Chief interest centred in the sixround challenge bout between A. Humphries and C. Coulter (Taranaki featherweight champion). The light went the lull distance, and after a sterntious battle Humphries gained a popular decision. 'The other bouts resulted as follow :

featherweight—Morgan beat Coombc. Lightweight—McWnirter beat Mercer ; Cadman beat Waterson; Blennerhassett drew with Measor. Welter —O’Brien beat Pearse. Bantam.—Childs beat Pocock. GENERAL NOTES. (By “Looker-on.”) Fritz Holland’s Greymouth course of instruction to local youths will conclude early this week, and the result should be highly satisfactory to all concerned. Those who have attended as spectators at Fritz’s class speak in glowing terms of Fritz, both as an instructor and lecturer on the higher ideals that go towards making the man of the boy of to-day. Those boys who have undergone a course under Mr. Holland are now reminded that all ey< s will in future follow their doings, and should they carry out their early promise at. least more than one of them may yei take high honours in the noble ‘ iii'dei stand that tlie good work commenced by Fritz Holland will be carried on by Laurie O’Neill, who should be able to carry on a very successful school with the material that has been put into shape by Fritz. The latter will now visit the other Coast centres, and all who desire should lose no time in placing themselves in the hands of this great past-master.

The fact that Fritz Holland will remain on the Coast for some weeks yet, and that Don Mundy appears to be itching for a scrap, seems to appeal to me a good opportunity for the G.B.A. to step in and arrange a match. I have no doubt that if Mundy will put up a side-wager, that the local Association will arrange a meeting with Fritz, of course, allowing that the latter is willing. With, say a £5O side-wager, it should not be necessary to go higher than a £75 or £lOO purse, and the result should be satisfactory to all T-arties. The bout, if arranged, could bo backed up with a special bout between Laurie O’Neill and either Dick Meale or McPhail. At Hastings on Frinday night R. Overton (Hastings) beat J. Whitton (Auckland), on points. The bout was of fen rounds. The finals of the Hawkes Bay amateur championships, decided at Hastings on Friday night, resulted as follow

Welter—Hays (Hastings) beat Stone ’ (Port Ahuriri). Light-weight.—Riccards (Gisborne) beat Hogan (Hastings). Feather.—Donovan (Napier) beat Lane (Hastings). Fly-weight—Wilmot (Hastings) beat Pearcey (Napier). Middle.—Glass (Petone) won by default. Eddie Driscoll, an American middleweight, was among the latest arrivals in Australia. Such is fame! Thus briefly does a Sydney paper record the passing of a man who in his day was one of Australia’s finest boxers:— The death occurred in the Coast Hospital, Sydney, on Tuesday, of Hock Keys, formerly featherweight champion of Australia. Keys went to America in 1907, but, owing to his lack of punching power, the our was not a success. He possessed exceptional ability as a teacher and many amateurs have profited from his knowledge of boxing. He leaves a widow and children. Hock Keys was light-weight champion of Australia in the days when the Island Continent boasted such men as Bob Turner, Lyn Truscott, Bob Greenshields, Jack Read, Frank Thorn and Hugliie Mehegan. George Arthur Keys—to give him his baptismal name —was born at Hillston, N.S.W., on January 26, 1880. He made his first appearance in the Sydney ring when he was barely 16 years old. In two rounds he knocked out one Foster. Soon after that he was fighting regularly in the metropolis, and meeting some of the best. At 23 he climbed to the front ranks by beating Joe Coster. Lyn Truscott, Monty Andrews and others. Later, New Zealand’s Tim Tracey was beaten by him, in Wellington. Subsequently he annexed the scalps of Turner, Greenshields, Thorne and Meighan. In Auckland in 1913, Hoch lost, in 15 rounds, to Johnny Summers, England’s clever light-weight-to-welter-weight. A wonderfully clever boxer was Keys, but his punching power was less than his skill. (To the Editor.) Sir, —As a follower of boxing, I have been somewhat interested reading the correspondence of Mr. Mundy re his boxing. Deeds such as Mr. Mundy mentioned in Saturday’s “Star” certainly speak for themselves, and, though no chicken to-day, he might jet fie given a chance to show to the world that he is the goods. What, Sir, I would like to know, is if a local syndicate were' to bring Siki to New Zealand would Mr. Mundy guarantee to meet him in the local ring under the Greymouth Boxing Association. Yours in all sincerity, AN ADMIRER. Dunollie, June 25.